Posts tagged "death"

Bearing Witness

Last week we held a ceremony to celebrate the life of my father. The service was quite wonderful as my sister held a reading and we had two friends from Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) speak to their friendship with my father. I spoke at the end before the officiant offered some words and the rendering of…

Sitting Between Life and Death

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say when one ends, and where the other begins? Edgar Allan Poe As our world become increasingly digitized, and social networks link friends across the spaces and lines of our lives, an interesting phenomenon occurs as people die. My Mother…